A jury awarded a Nevada prisoner more than $200,000 in damages, but the attorney general’s office is now trying to avoid paying, the prisoner’s attorneys allege.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
A 13-year-old boy drowned in floodwater during the weekend storms in Las Vegas, Clark County officials announced.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said prosecutors are prepared to go to trial in November against Robert Telles, accused of killing investigative reporter Jeff German.
Clark County School District employees previously could mark emails as confidential, which would cause them to be erased from the system.
The executive director of the ACLU of Nevada said that the school district has been “disingenuous” about what records the agency has access to.
In a lawsuit filed in Clark County, a Pennsylvania woman says Nick Carter sexually assaulted her on his yacht when she was 15.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his roommate, whose body was found partially dismembered and stuffed in a recycling bin nearly two years ago.
Adolfo Orozco appeared in court on Tuesday as his defense attorney argued for a judge to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charges against him.
Attorneys said Monday that they expect the trial to last two days in Las Vegas Municipal Court.
“We have seen increasing trends of unsafe and unlawful activity over the past few years that is not just limited to DUI incidents,” a National Park Service spokesperson said.
For the second time, a jury has found Thomas Randolph guilty of orchestrating the killing of his sixth wife and the handyman he hired to kill her.
George Bone faces a murder charge in the death of his roommate in a case where police say he lived with her body for more than two months.
A jury listened to closing arguments Wednesday in the second murder trial for Thomas Randolph, who is accused of orchestrating the death of his wife in 2008 and then killing the hit man.
Former Raiders player Henry Ruggs has been booked into High Desert State Prison, located about 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
A federal judge again refused to release Richard Zeitlin from custody, a day after he was arrested in Las Vegas in connection with a New York indictment.